Some of the chilling actions of today are echos of those 100 years gone.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine Compass: There’s no such thing as ‘fake news’
Professional journalism is distinguishable from propaganda, rumor, satire and lies.
Column: The case for a quick repeal
The new president and Congress must act decisively to stabilize the insurance markets that exist as well as lay the groundwork for the improved markets they envision.
Alan Caron: Tension within the GOP
With Trump promising so much antithetical to conservatives, they’ll have to pick their poison.
Don Roberts: Governor’s extreme budget
LePage’s spending proposal has some good ideas, but goes too far.
Maine Compass: Senators wrong on biomass
Burning wood is not carbon-neutral and should not be classified as such.
Barbara Bush: Betsy DeVos the right women for education secretary
She is an educator at heart, and has spent her life fighting for children.
Maine Compass: Trump should follow Reagan’s precedent and make ‘illegal aliens’ legal
Immigration policy must be reformed to give them a path to citizenship — and an obligation to pay taxes.
George Smith: The governor’s address of 1891
Today’s public officials can take something away from the speech given by Gov. Edwin Burleigh.
Another View: Pruitt at EPA would be an environmental disaster
Trying to portray him as balanced belies his record as an attacker of environmental regulations.